Artificial intelligence could evolve to be so astute and quick at doing jobs that it could replace CEOs and political leaders – and politicians in the United Kingdom are already warning that they may face an AI takeover.
Richard John Denison, a peer in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, warned this week that he and his colleagues could be replaced by “peerbots” that copy their distinctive writing style and voice inflections to give speeches with no hesitation, repetition, or departure.
Is it exciting or frightening to think that your Lordships might one day be replaced by ‘Peerbots’ with more knowledge, higher productivity, and reduced operating costs? According to the Guardian, Denison mentioned this when speaking to the upper chamber.
He was briefly tempted to outsource his AI speech to a chatbot and see whether anyone noticed. He did, in fact, test two huge language models. Both gave 500-word monologues in seconds that were plausible, if somewhat generic, he added.
According to Dan Hendrycks, the director of the Centre for AI Safety, AI replacing politicians or CEOs has value. Hendrycks is a machine learning researcher who has published numerous studies on the potentially disastrous repercussions of artificial intelligence, such as AI gaining the upper hand over humanity by following Darwinian criteria.
Hendrycks told that AI might advance to the point where machines take over politicians’ positions as well as employment in the highest echelons of industry, and he cited a Chinese corporation that already has an AI CEO.
For example, a Chinese corporation has already nominated an AI as its CEO. This is not to say if this is a good concept or not, but that people are willing, as long as the AI can perform well enough, according to Hendrycks.
Last year, NetDragon Websoft, a Chinese gaming firm, stated that it would install an AI-powered virtual humanoid robot dubbed “Tang Yu” as CEO of its subsidiary, Fujian NetDragon Websoft, to boost competency and help maintain a fair and efficient workplace for all employees.
In a press release at the time, NetDragon chairman Dejian Liu stated that they believed AI to be the future of corporate management and that their selection of Ms. Tang Yu represented their commitment to fully embrace the use of AI to transform the way they run their business and ultimately fuel their future strategic growth.
Natural selection may be a dominant force in the development of AI, and evolution by natural selection tends to produce selfish behavior, according to Hendrycks, who wrote a paper earlier this year titled Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans. In this paper, Hendrycks argued that natural selection creates incentives for AI agents to act against human interests.
It’s survival of the fittest in the marketplace. Hendrycks predicted earlier this year that as AIs get more proficient, they will automate more and more jobs. Natural selection favors AIs over humans in this way, which causes regular people to be displaced. In the long run, AIs might be considered invading species.
Hendrycks said this week that if AI follows Darwinian principles, the systems would even be preferred above people for CEOs and politicians.
Hendrycks said that there are four non-exhaustive reasons why artificial intelligence (AI) could beat humans. These reasons include the fact that AIs could work continuously and that they become faster and faster every year.
For a human executive, the difference between 60 and 80 hours a week is significant. Hendrycks indicated that an AI boss may work 168 hours a week with no breaks. Executives using faster operating systems might think more quickly and make excellent decisions even while under time pressure.
The same AI, according to him, could handle an unlimited number of relationships and employees, work on many jobs at once, and act as an expert in a variety of fields or at the very least possess superhuman knowledge in a variety of fields of interest.
According to him, businesses that don’t use AI to replace their CEOs would lose market share and eventually go out.
CEOs are now the least likely professionals to be replaced by AI when compared to jobs like customer service reps or data entry clerks, according to a few studies. Voters have already expressed support for the idea of using artificial intelligence (AI) to replace lawmakers, according to a 2021 study by the IE University’s Centre for the Governance of Change in Europe, which found 51% of Europeans support the idea.
